hello everyone today I'm gonna deal with the white tiger by arabindriga arvind Sarika is an Indian author and a journalist in 2008 his first novel The White Tiger won the man Booker prize for fiction after Salman rashtriya and Kiran deshai he became the fourth Indian to win the man Booker prize after winning this prize in 2008 he published his next novel in 2009 between the assassinations white tiger the novel depicts the inequalities and disparities in a modern global economy and the rise of India is a leading character of the novel who came from a poor Village called lakshmangar his father is a rakshapola and his name is Vikram he has a brother too his and his name is Krishan mother has already died and has a grandmother kusum the book takes the form of a series of seven letters from the narrator who later becomes a self-made entrepreneur in Bangalore he begins his letter from the high tech city of Bangalore to the Chinese Premier Benji above who is expected to visit India he picturizes a real India of half-baked Indians before him well run as one such fellow and had to stop formal schooling and starts working in a tea shop where she even stopped on conversations and learns new life lessons after his father vikram's death he goes to the coal mining city of then father where he becomes a driver for Mr Ashok the stocks family like wanted to amass a huge amount of wealth and he decided to murder Mr Ashok and drop seven lakhs rupees from him then he ran away to Bangalore and becomes resumes he resumes his life there and becomes a successful entrepreneur he starts a driver's company called the white tiger drivers and it runs successfully after that he decided to switch to real estate and that's how he looks at himself as a successful entrepreneur in Bangalore three influences three major influences behind arvind arika to write such a novel three black American novelist Richard Wright James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison another influence came from the sales case Crime and Punishment there is a character called rascalnikov and his resemblance might have influenced him to write the white tiger does things like that he murders his master and robes money from him and resumes his life belram's drive to murder his master can be equated with Ras kolnikov now we can have a look at the characters of the novel first we can have a look at it's look at balram's Family he is the leading figure of this novel uh who is often considered as the anti-hero of the novel balram halwai his brother keshan grandmother cousin and and there is a mention about his father Vikram who was a raksha blur who died at the hospital the government hospital without getting any treatment from the officials now we can have a look at ashok's family that is belram's Masters family there is his wife pinky Madam who recently came from us both ashogen to pygmy Madden recently came from America and his father stork and his brother Mukesh also look at the cities as the characters of the novel The First City mentioned here is definitely his village lakshmangar and then which is a shark's Place Asha was born in later they might have shifted to then birth the coal mining city of denpath and there is a mention of all the Delhi and New Delhi gurgaon the most developed Americanized region in India the modern region Bangalore Bangalore is also the most developed area and there are four landlords the Buffalo the stork the wild War The Raven and the politicians of Vijay Vijay was someone who worked in bus and balram was much attracted towards him and there is a great socialist who always assumed power loading the poor people and there is another driver fellow the fellow being who accompanied him or who has their with balram when he moved to Delhi with Ashok and he was having virtually your lips as we can see in the picture and that's why his name is not given but he is being mentioned as with Lego lips again have a look at the setting the first setting is Bangalore Bangalore from where he writes a letter he is starting this letter from Bangalore where he uh assumes himself as a successful entrepreneur and that belongs to the Life part and lakshmangar which is the most underdeveloped Village and that belongs to Darkness it's a place in Bihar tenbad again Darkness it belongs to jharkhand gurgaon is light because it is a most developed Americanized city in India or little he definitely then that might be the Not So Sophisticated not so developed and modernized version and the New Delhi which is light Hydra mother's light Bangalore the electronic City definitely that is according to well run as light and a few of the most popular codes I have quoted here you can go through that with time being I am skipping those quotes now we can have a look at the title the title is the white tiger why arvinda has chosen this title what is the significance of this title let's have a look at it how well was given this name the white tiger I'll tell you actually the white tiger is the name given to him by the school inspector in schools I will be especially in government schools there will be inspections and inspectors will be coming they'll be asking questions there will be busy verifying the papers they'll be checking they'll be interacting with the student they'll be doing so many such things and one day in belram's classroom the inspector came and he asked many questions and beltram is the only one who answered all the questions asked by the inspector and he was very happy with him and then he asked the students you young man are an intelligent honest vicious fellow In This Crowd of thugs and idiots in any jungle what is rarest of animals the creature that comes along only one's in a generation and he replies the white tiger that's what you are in this jungle and that's how he was given this name and so the white tiger the name white tiger is given to balram by the school inspector he is being considered as the the most powerful the one that appears only once in a generation and now we can see what the white tiger symbolizes it symbolizes power freedom and visuality determination and wild nature we can see we can see balram as an amalgamation of all these things he has power he was he hailed from a very poor background but he has that courage and determination his individual strength he wanted to explore he wanted to be like the Masters he wanted to move to the lighter part of the World Part of India thus he devised his plans he became successful in that he murdered his master it shows his wild nature and he became successful whether that's not positive sense or not that is another question to be debated upon and the next measure we can see in this novelist the image of the rooster cope I'll read this quote I caught the greatest thing to come out of this country is a rooster Corp The Roosters in the coop smell the blood from above they see the organs of their brothers they know they are next if they do not Rebel they do not try to get a little Coke the very same thing is done with human beings in this country see this is the image of a rooster group where the hints are the roosters are above and the from the below compartment there will be The Butchers will be taking out the roasters one by one and they will be killed but no matter what the other Roasters are never going to make any sounds you know they are witnessing everything you're watching everything they know that next will be their turn but they're not doing anything likewise the poor Indians the drivers the servants are like that they know what their condition is going to be how they're going to suffer under the rule of their masters but you know they're never going to do anything against it the rules Taco is doing its work servants have to keep their servants from becoming innovators experiment experimenters or entrepreneurs yes there's a sad Road Mr Premier the coop is guarded from the inside so balram here is saying that we all servants we the drivers are like rooster cope that's a servant mindset actually that we know we prevent even the other servants prevent the uh servants prevent them from becoming innovators experimenters or entrepreneurs might be they might be jealous they will never do anything apart from what they have been assigned to do and that's a sad truth Mr Premier the coop is guarded from the inside we actually the poor people the servants are conditioned in there today so they are not courageous they're not smart enough to come out of that box they are conditioned so that rooster code that's that mindset is coming from inside nobody can change that the next images are the black Fort according to balance this is the only thing of beauty in his village it symbolizes poverty darkness and also the historical social hierarchy that rebellum initially confirms you that it reminds him that he belongs to a very poor background from to a dark history that he was having something not to be fancy about it he was both scared and fascinated by by the architectural beauty of the fort at the same time he was much afraid to enter that he was not able to defy the existing social structure we know that he it's clear that he belonged to a class called halwais was are actually what they are actually sweet makers his car's name so during those times not even those times even today people are not allowed to do anything apart from Beyond their caste so they were not supposed to do anything beyond that even when he expresses his desirland driving the people were not ready they were not ready to take him because he belonged to a castle called halwas how can I halwai be a driver and that was a question before them coming to the fourth this is a grant all the building on a hill about town it's believed that this is constructed by the British so it's it reminds him of a slavish a very dark history of India that might be one reason for him to get afraid of it and the next colorful image is that of the chandeliers this is a symbol of India of light because these kinds of Lights chandeliers will only be there in the household of rich people poor people cannot afford it these are all some decorations or some fancy items of the poor people the poor India cannot afford it and the Belgium is very much obsessed with it so having these kinds of lights and chandeliers in a house is considered to be a matter of status balam tells you Obama I have got no family anymore all I have got is chandelier so he doesn't have much concern about his family and he was fascinated towards the rich people the the things the rich would possess and later we can say that balram murdered his master after that his image and the notice was based on the walls across India and he says police assumed they would find him in the dark but he has hidden himself in the full light of his chandeliers in Bangalore he was having these generally as in his room and the police is now going to find him because even he has changed everything his appearance and even he has adopted a new name that is Ashok Sharma so he was much confident that nobody is going to find him and then throughout this novel we can see a lot of image animal imagery belram is considered as the white tiger and the names of landlords the four landlords are given names of animals stroke wild boar Raven Buffalo mongoose and there is a mention of humans virus who work in a tea shop so it's like a chain that the human spiders people who work in a tea shop ambitious men doing Mania labor do not dream of a better position in life so these human spiders or these people who work in a day show are unambitious people doing lots of Labor and they do not even dream of a better position in life they will be whatever they are right now and there is another image of lizards and we can say that velam was someone who is very much afraid of lizards his that fear is one reason for him to stop his schooling another images out of rooster Co-op That animated me that servant mindset where they are conditioned this is a monkey's Buffalo The Raven while the boys talk so these are some pictures for that you can remember the names have a look at the themes of the novel globalization is one team development in urban areas World Market better opportunities migration Village as to cities individually in visuality and what has happened after globalization the World Market was open right people could access everything across the world sitting in their rooms sitting in their place so the World Market was open and it brought development urban areas boy Margaret was open and people got better opportunities people migrated from villages to cities because where they could have they could get much opportunities and individuality every individual have that individual strength they thought about themselves they have that self-respect everything they became maybe much stronger about Economic Development rich and poor distinction inequality and then economically even though India was India is an economically fast developing Nation the rich enter poor distinction was there the rich people became more richer and the poor people became more poor and their states were never nothing happened to the the rich and poor distribution that is a rich became more rich and the poor became more rich and that's it inequality was always there class conflicts the class conflicts definitely class conflicts was definitely one major theme in the novel we can say it everywhere even the drivers arguing about each other the con the arguments the conflict between the Masters and the is her Windsor you might have if you have if you have watched my previous video you might have seen that there is one incident where by pinky Madame is drunken and she is driving the car and she has hit and run a boy and at that moment villain drives a car to their household and they've never cared about the person I mean the boy who was being hit his name is not even mentioned so that's how the poor people were much neglected freedom Freedom how we can Define Freedom who is actually enjoying the freedom the rich class the poor people who does actually enjoy Freedom individualism distinction between the rich and the poor corruption corruption we can see that why we can see to all the ATMs for withdrawing money which they were to give to the minister as a bribe for giving them the access to the calls the government calls so they are giving bribes to ministers the government officials so corruption is always there and there is a great socialist who assumes power giving false promises to the people poor people again and again he assumes power politics India's politic system is clearly depicted in the novel it is Indian Society family so all these things are reflected in the novel we can see it there in every characters how their life is running how those people if there is a mention of almost everything I even remember one incident where there is a mention of the river Ganga and what happened to ganga the corpse and the corpse of people are being dumped into the rivers how much polluted is India how class conflicts exists that of big bellies and small bellies the big bellies the rich people in a small bellies of poor people so likewise so many powerful images and themes are there before finding up I'll read out the chords I caught the story of my upbringing is a story of how a Half Baked fellow is produced but pay attention Mr Premier fully formed the fellows after 12 years of school in three years of University where a nice suits a joint companies and take orders from their men for the rest of their lives entrepreneurs are made from half basically but Ram claims himself to be a man who made from who is made from Half Baked clay he is a drop off a successful entrepreneur in India many of my best ideas are in fact borrowed from my ex-employer or his brother or someone else whom I was driving about I confess Mr Premier I'm not an original thinker but I'm an original listener so he says it is the most powerful one right so he listened to his Exemplar who Mr Ashok and he witnessed the Corruptions which they were doing the thing mughesh were doing witnessed everything so he says I am not an original thing I'm not an original thing I didn't I might not have that much intelligence but I'm an original listener so he listened to these people and he became like them he murdered him and he became successful Ashok to murder's wife has murdered a poor boy so the history repeats here stories of rottenness and Corruption are always the best stories are in the so here again this is a story of rotten us and the corruption in its days of greatness when it was a richest a nation on Earth was like a zoo there in the British left the cages had been lit open and the Animals had attacked and ripped each other apart and jungle or replaced the Zulu even after the British left even after the foreign rule enter nothing much has happened here in India just the jungler replaced the Zulu no much differences there were 1000 cars in Destinies in India these days there are just two cast men with big bellies and men with small bellies and only two Destinies eat or get eaten up so this is the current reality of India it's not about caste even though that is I do believe that still there is cast in class conflicts not just money these days there are just too cursed men with big belly the rich and poor to eat or get eaten enough to get eaten by the powerful people but my genuine concern for him ended and were my self-invest began I could not tell nor so one can ever tell what the moti what the motives of his heart are we are made mysterious to ourselves by the rooster care we are logged in so he's talking about his interest or his uh failing towards Master a shock my genuine concern for him in that were my self-interest began so his concern towards his mother and her were his self-interest began he can't tell everything no seven can ever tell what the motives of his heart are we are made mysterious to ourselves by The Rose Taco we are loved in Hebrew the rest of today's narrative will deal mainly with the sorrowful tale of how I was corrupted from a sweet innocent Village full into a acidified fellow full of debauchery depravity and wickedness all these changes happen to me because I happened first in Mr Ashok so as I already mentioned he copied he followed Mr shock in everything Ashok did all these things and the history repeated balram told it let animals live like animals little humans live like lumens that's my whole philosophy in a sentence let animals live like animals let humans live like humans so this this card might have different connotations and different meanings the white tiger so he might have considered himself as an animal animal can do anything it can go to any extreme so it can justify his ads even though he murdered a shark that was because he wanted to survive in a nation called India now despite by amazing sexy story I don't want to lose contact with the place where I got my real education in life the road and the payments yes definitely we can see that everywhere he overhears the conversations of people even the tea shop even at the streets the pavement the road everywhere he listens he aves job to our conversations so that was his real score not the formal education he did his calling there in the roads and the Pavements the city has its share of thugs and politicians it's just that the if a man wants to be good he can be good englishmengar he doesn't even have this choice this is a difference between this India and that India the choice Insidious in those places they have many choices they can be good or bad but in English he doesn't even have a choice people in this country are still waiting for the war of their freedom to come from somewhere else that will never happen every man must make his own Banaras the book of your Revolution sits in the pit of your belly young Indian grab it out and read so the book of your Revolution sits in the pit of your village it's there in your lap so grab it read it and become successful and never nobody is going to bring your changes nobody is going to make any Revolution unless you think you want to change so that's a message that balram is going to give I'm not saying that Ultram was a very good person often people do not say so because he murdered he did so many crimes he didn't become a successful entrepreneur in a very positive manner or he was not good in what he was actually doing and I don't know if you can call belram as a byronic here or not that he was he was not a byronic hero actually but he was a Andy hero he was a very good person at the beginning later he murders his master and aided a lot many negative things and that's how he became a successful entrepreneur and that's how history goes this is a brief analysis of the novel there might be so many things to be added upon you can refer read more and if you haven't watched my previous video please go through that detailed chapter by summary is given there so that's it read the original text go through the articles go through the slides read again and again thank you so much